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by scotty79 45 days ago
Wealth is not a resource to be gathered or utilized. Wealth is just a number. Number that determines what fraction of future output of human civilization this person can command on a whim.

Letting one person have this amount of power is just wrong way to do things. There should be caps on that. Such amount of power should be under command of organizations, not individuals. Otherwise we are are stuck with living under a handful of spontaneous, random dictators, hoping they are benevolent and not incredibly stupid. While they constantly make idiotic and malevolent decisions that waste actual resources and human capital.

The question who deserves what and what was earned and how is almost irrelevant if the total outcome is this bad.